Still, unfortunately, cutting is essential to a story's success. It hurts, but scenes that interrupt the story's flow, wonderful on their own they may be, they gotta' go. In my own script, I've had to painfully cut a lot of things.
The deleted scenes on the Star Wars DVDs are interesting. In Revenge of the Sith, there was a scene toward the end showing Yoda flying to the Dagoba planet to live in exile.
I wish the Deleted Scenes were kept in Star Wars. I liked the way Bail and Mon were forming the Rebel Alliance and I liked the Yoda scene. Shaak Ti's scene was painful (she was very pretty) but it also did add to the movie's darkness and grittyness.